Manual cleaning of oil-based ink after screen printing is essential for maintaining the quality of printed industrial products. However, in most screen printing companies, commonly used ink cleaning agents include gasoline, trichloroethylene, acetone, and benzene, also known as washout solutions. These solutions are widely used due to their fast drying rates and low cost, despite being highly flammable and explosive with a low flashpoint. They also evaporate easily, have strong toxic effects, and contain numerous volatile organic compounds (VOCs), leading to severe air pollution. Prolonged exposure can result in illnesses such as cancer. Although workers are equipped with protective clothing, masks, and goggles during cleaning operations, manual wiping of screens in high-intensity work environments with poor ventilation cannot guarantee their safety.
Companies previously chose such non-green and environmentally unfriendly washout solutions to increase profits. However, with increasingly stringent environmental standards, rising labor costs, and growing concern for worker health, the use of these solutions has significantly impacted the social and economic benefits of the entire screen printing industry.
In response to these challenges, the development of new water-based environmentally friendly cleaning agents for oil-based ink has emerged. These agents offer high efficiency, energy savings, environmental friendliness, and safety. They completely remove oil-based ink, have high material compatibility, and, when combined with self-developed automatic ink screen cleaning machines, achieve automation in screen cleaning, eliminating manual cleaning methods. This not only saves labor costs but also improves the cleaning environment, ushering in a new era of screen cleaning. Advocating for the use of environmentally friendly cleaning agents not only helps the printing industry save cleaning costs but also fulfills corporate social responsibility by contributing to environmental protection and worker health.
These are the potential hazards of manual cleaning of ink and solutions and their solutions. I hope this is helpful.
